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Votes at a glance: Columbia Heights board actions, Sept. 23, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions and outcomes recorded during the Columbia Heights Public Schools Board meeting on Sept. 23, 2025, including agenda approval, consent agenda, language access plan, insurance renewal, preliminary levy and board goals.
The Columbia Heights Public Schools Board of Education recorded the following formal actions during its Sept. 23, 2025 regular meeting. Items are listed in headline form with the stated outcome as recorded during the meeting. The board did not take action on public-comment requests at this meeting.
- Approve meeting agenda for Sept. 23, 2025 — Motion carries (voice vote).
- Approve consent agenda (personnel report, employee handbook, and school board minutes) — Motion carries (voice vote). A board member noted that changes to the employee handbook had been presented previously as informational.
- Approve Language Access Plan as presented (presented Sept. 9, 2025) — Motion carries (voice vote). Staff to post family-friendly version and circulate link in Friday packet.
- Approve district insurance renewal package (property/liability/business auto/umbrella/boiler-machinery/cyber) from Chubb, Hanover, and Travelers as presented (motion language corrected for carrier spelling) — Motion carries (voice vote; one abstention recorded).
- Approve preliminary levy for 2025, payable 2026, as the maximum to allow state adjustments prior to final certification — Motion carries (voice vote; at least one abstention recorded). Staff noted a timing issue with District 916 lease levy data that is expected to be corrected in the state’s next levy run.
- Approve Board of Education goals for 2025–26 with preamble and midyear/year-end assessments — Motion carries (voice vote).
- Move into closed session to discuss negotiation strategy — Motion carries (voice vote). The board later returned and reported the closed-session topic was contract negotiations. The live stream was paused for the closed session; the remainder of the meeting was recorded and posted later excluding the closed session.
- Adjourn — Motion carries (voice vote).
This summary reflects motions and outcomes as recorded in the meeting transcript. Where roll-call tallies or named movers/seconders were not given in the transcript, the entry notes the vote method (voice vote) and any abstentions mentioned on the record.
